IPL 7: Royal Challengers beat Super Kings by 5 wickets in last over thriller

Ranchi Royal Challengers Bangalore made a stunning late flourish after initial struggle with A B de Villiers playing a cameo of 14ball 28 to pull off a fivewicket victory over Chennai Super Kings in a thrilling IPL match here todayChasing 139 for a win Bangalore found the going tough with the Chennai slow bowlers seemingly tying them into knots in the first half of their innings before exploding towards the end to overhaul the target with one ball to spare in a lowscoring match that went down the wireChris Gayle Pic AFPChennai captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni used his four slow bowlers R Ashwin 216 Suresh Raina 020 Ravindra Jadeja 031 and Samuel Badree 015 for long spells and as they were getting the turn on JSCA International Stadium Bangalore struggled to reach 45 for one at the halfway markOpener Chris Gayle who topscored for Bangalore with an uncharacteristic 50ball 46 played and missed several times but to his credit he stayed at the crease Bangalore however had wickets in their hands so that they can go all out in the last five oversThat was exactly what they did as Bangalore scored 97 runs in 95 overs to reach 142 for five from 195 overs to win the match and stay afloat for a playoff berth With todays win Bangalore jumped to fifth place with 10 points from 11 matches while Chennai who were virtually through to the playoff stage remained on second spot with 16 points from 11 gamesThe fightback began with Gayle and Virat Kohli 27 stitching 61 runs for the second wicket from 104 balls before the Bangalore captain was out in the 15th over Gayle and de Villiers then decided to have a go at the Chennai bowlers who were getting the odd ball turn The duo hit some lusty blows to put pressure on the Chennai bowlers When Gayle was out Bangalore needed 29 runs from the last three overs and de Villiers took 15 runs from the 18th over bowled by David Hussey 238 to almost settle the issue for his sideBefore he was out in the 18th over de Villiers hit one four and three sixes and took his side to just 14 runs away from victory Bangalore needed 10 runs from the final over bowled by Hussey and Yuvraj Singh 13 not out smashed a six from the first ball before Abu Nechim Ahmed 4 not out hit a four to win the matchEarlier Raina overcame early jitters to hit an unbeaten halfcentury and guide Chennai to a modest 138 for four During his 48ball 62run knock Raina struck a six and six boundaries to help his team to a decent total after they struggled to force the pace for a major part of the innings Bangalore bowlers were very economical with Varun Aaron being the most impressive with figures of two for 29 from three oversOpting to bat Chennai did not have an ideal start as they lost both their openers within the first five overs with Aaron accounting for Dwayne Smith 9 and Brendon McCullum 19 Raina walked into the middle when Chennai were in the spot of bother after losing two wickets in the same over with just 29 runs on the board in 44 oversAlong with David Hussey Raina rebuilt the Chennai innings putting on 75 runs together for the third wicket Raina was more dominating of the two batsmen as he hit all the loose balls that came his way even as Hussey struggled to get going Finally it was Muttiah Muralitharan who saw Hussey off for a 29ball 25Even Chennai skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni failed to take off despite hitting an early boundary off Yuzvendra Chahal In the final overs Ravindra Jadeja chipped in with a nineball 10 putting on an unbroken 23 runs for the fifth wicket with Raina